天河棒垒球场

The Tianhe baseball and softball field occupies the north-western corner of Tianhe Sports Centre at 299 Tianhe Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, beside CITIC Plaza on the city's new central axis. The site covers 14,400 square metres and includes a three-storey grandstand building for about 2,000 spectators, while Asian Games venue records give 3,000 seats. The field meets international standards for adult baseball and softball and is equipped with floodlighting, an electronic scoring system, a public-address system and automatic irrigation. Softball at the 2010 Asian Games was played here from 19 to 26 November. Tianhe Sports Centre was built for the Sixth National Games in 1987 on more than 50 hectares, the first Chinese-designed complex to open a stadium, a gymnasium and a swimming hall at the same time, and it later added baseball, tennis, gateball and roller-skating facilities. Ahead of the 15th National Games in 2025 the centre was comprehensively renovated as a near-zero-carbon retrofit of an existing large stadium. The baseball ground now serves junior coaching, amateur leagues and public fitness, bookable through the Quntitong platform, and is a short walk from Metro Line 1's Tiyu Xilu and Tianhe Sports Center stations. Dense bus routes serve the surrounding streets, and the ground ranks with the stadium, gymnasium and natatorium as one of the centre's main venues. The ground sits beside the centre's north-west entrance, so on match days spectators walk in from Tianhe Road on a route separate from the stadium and gymnasium crowds; practice cages and a warm-up area flank the field and are let to baseball clubs and school teams on ordinary days.